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flex
As in flexibility And that means You. How many of you immediately dismissed this blog post, thinking “this isn’t for me. I’m about as flexible as an uncooked piece of spaghetti”? Its for you. Flexibility, according to the OED, is “the quality of bending easily without breaking.” We can all…
hold
Ahhhhh… the Holidays. Festivities, nostalgic movies, joy and connection, sorrow and loneliness… the seasonal sad-feelies, the ‘Love, Actually’ longings. It doesn’t seem to matter how much therapy I’ve done or how many hours I’ve clocked on the meditation cushion, this time of year brings up a lot. Sometimes, when…
ground
There is a lot for the nervous system to get activated about these days. And those of you engaged in processes of sensitizing yourself even more to the world – bodywork, therapy, mindfulness practices, anything that tenderizes your heart – can feel your own self, and the turmoil of the…
love. women.
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! (And may February’s love spill over and over…) Because I didn’t get around to posting about LOVE last month, and because now it’s the month of women, and because these days – EVERY DAY – I am blown away by the astounding women in my life…
What’s Fascia?
So what’s fascia? It is one thing and everything. I love the way Brooke Thomas (of Liberated Body) defines it: …a seamless piece of tissue that Saran wraps you just underneath the skin … it is a richly multi-dimensional tissue that forms your internal soft tissue architecture. From the superficial (“body stocking”)…
announcing my practice…and just what is structural integration?
Hello. If you haven’t heard, I’m in Vancouver now. I re-located to Vancouver in the fall of 2013 and I’ve been softly opening my Structural Integration practice since February 2014. I started working at a lovely little Mount Pleasant massage therapy clinic on Main and Broadway in Vancouver. I lucked…